- Jay Shah announced that BCCI will insist on a neutral location for the competition.
- Miandad declared that if India didn’t want to travel Pakistan, they could go to hell.
- ACC’s Executive Board meeting will decide where Asia Cup 2023 will take place.
Javed Miandad, a legendary batsman for Pakistan, took aim at the Indian cricket board and told them to “go to hell” for refusing to send a team to the 2023 Asia Cup in Pakistan.
A day after Indian officials announced they would not send a team to the 2023 Asia Cup in Pakistan, Pakistani cricket officials intimated they might not send a side to the World Cup in India the following year in October.
India won’t be travelling Pakistan for the Asian event, according to Jay Shah, president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the Asian Cricket Council (ACC). Additionally, he stated that the BCCI will insist on a neutral location for the competition.
His announcement shocked Pakistan, and officials there warned that it would “divide” the cricket world.
The PCB said Shah’s comments “can impact Pakistan’s visit to India for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 and future ICC Events in India in the 2024-2031 cycle”.
In response to the uproar, Miandad declared that if India didn’t want to travel Pakistan for the Asia Cup, they could “go to hell.”
“I have always been saying, if India doesn’t want to come, we don’t care. They can go to hell. We are getting our cricket. It’s ICC’s job to control such things, else there’s no point of having a governing body,” Miandad said while speaking to media persons.
“ICC should have one rule for every country. If such teams don’t come, no matter how strong they are, you should remove them.
“They should play, why aren’t they playing? They are afraid of consequences.
“Even in our times, they would not play because they were afraid of consequences. India’s crowd is ‘nasty’. Whenever India would lose, no matter against whom, they would burn houses. That’s what they are afraid of.”
Despite being regarded as having one of the game’s biggest rivalries, India and Pakistan haven’t played each other at home since 2012 and only meet in international competitions on neutral grounds.
The ACC’s Executive Board meeting will decide definitively where the Asia Cup 2023 will take place next month.
Najam Sethi, the head of the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) management committee, was present at an emergency meeting of the ACC that took place on Saturday in Bahrain. The future of the Asia Cup was also debated, among other things, but no decision was taken.
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